Changes in Eastern Europe To understand why communism has failed, You have to look at the fact that nobody really wanted a rebellion against government. Russia was better off with the czars. Another point is that there was a flaw in Karl Marx's plan for communism. That flaw was that people have natural greed. What is the challenge of not being able to be better than anyone else is? That really would get boring after …showed first 75 words of 285 total…

…showed last 75 words of 285 total…before, They have trouble getting it out of the frozen tundra of Siberia. Did you know that almost 70% of Russia is Siberia? That's a lot of resources. If Russia could get those resources out of the soil, they'd be a very rich country. In conclusion, Russia would be a very large world power today, if they had not converted to communism. They might even be on par with the United States of America and Europe!